Summary
Amish Ralhan is a seasoned software leader and founder with 11 years of experience building production-grade systems across finance, blockchain, and food manufacturing tech. As Co-Founder and CTO of Pesto, he’s applying enterprise-grade engineering to modernize a £100B+ industry, turning operational chaos into profitability and sustainability advantages for food and drink brands. Previously he led engineering initiatives at Galaxy in digital assets and spent multiple years in Citi’s Innovation Labs designing greenfield risk and index engines using React, TypeScript, Node.js and containerized deployment pipelines. He combines hands-on full-stack development with strategic product sense, having taken projects from prototype to automated production at scale. Trained as an M.Eng. in Electronic & Electrical Engineering at UCL and seasoned by early research on autonomous robots, he brings both systems thinking and practical automation expertise to complex operational problems. Outside the obvious startup arc, he has a track record of translating financial-grade reliability into adjacent industries where legacy tooling still dominates.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
1 Year Exchange Program (Bachelor of Engineering BEng) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 1 Year Exchange Program (Bachelor of Engineering BEng) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Grade XII (Equivalent to A-levels) Maths Physics Computer Science Chemistry English, Grade XII (Equivalent to A-levels) Maths Physics Computer Science Chemistry English at Delhi Public School - R. K. Puram
University College London